Emergency Lights (First Responders)

mjonesjr84

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I'm guessing there are several first responders in the forum. What do you have for set ups in your TJ for response lights?

This is my 2000. I have a Star Mini-Phantom in the front windshield (not stuck on it yet, may add a second one or something different). The rear is a Feniex Fusion-S dual. I'm hoping when I put the Trek Top on next week the rear light doesn't interfere.

 
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I've been meaning to add a strobe controller and some yellow bolt lights to some corners and my existing lights for doing trash pickups.

Haven't found a strobe controller I trust enough to purchase.

-Mac
 
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Are you law enforcement?blue lights will land you in jail for impersonating an officer.

I'm not allowed to even use emergency flashers when responding to calls in personal vehicles. If i show up in my personal vehicle on the side of the road I'll use flashers once parked.i see zero use for extra lights.

My take on going code 3 in a fire truck is to do it sparingly,like only when someone won't pull over for me. Flashing lights and sirens make people do stupid shit. Like slam on their brakes on a blind corner,stopping halfway in the road and create hazards or almost have you rear end them in your heavy truck.

In cities its a different game where giving all the clueless assholes advanced notice can be a good thing to clear out intersections.
 
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Rickyd said:
Are you law enforcement?blue lights will land you in jail for impersonating an officer.

I'm not allowed to even use emergency flashers when responding to calls in personal vehicles. If i show up in my personal vehicle on the side of the road I'll use flashers once parked.i see zero use for extra lights.

My take on going code 3 in a fire truck is to do it sparingly,like only when someone won't pull over for me. Flashing lights and sirens make people do stupid shit. Like slam on their brakes on a blind corner,stopping halfway in the road and create hazards or almost have you rear end them in your heavy truck.

In cities its a different game where giving all the clueless assholes advanced notice can be a good thing to clear out intersections.
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Different areas have different light colors. By me blue is fire, red is police.
 
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Rickyd said:
Are you law enforcement?blue lights will land you in jail for impersonating an officer.

I'm not allowed to even use emergency flashers when responding to calls in personal vehicles. If i show up in my personal vehicle on the side of the road I'll use flashers once parked.i see zero use for extra lights.

My take on going code 3 in a fire truck is to do it sparingly,like only when someone won't pull over for me. Flashing lights and sirens make people do stupid shit. Like slam on their brakes on a blind corner,stopping halfway in the road and create hazards or almost have you rear end them in your heavy truck.

In cities its a different game where giving all the clueless assholes advanced notice can be a good thing to clear out intersections.
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Indiana is blue for volunteer firefighters. We are a rural community, but make a lot of runs, mostly medical and car wrecks. I live 5 miles from our station.

TonyArms said:
Different areas have different light colors. By me blue is fire, red is police.
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Same for us in Indiana. There are only a couple states that are blue for volunteer firefighters.
 
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TonyArms said:
Different areas have different light colors. By me blue is fire, red is police.
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My area went to red & blue on Law enforcement vehicles years ago because of that reason… we are retirement area and people from up north complained because they thought that blue light behind them was a fire truck… 🤪
 
97JadeTJ said:
My area went to red & blue on Law enforcement vehicles years ago because of that reason… we are retirement area and people from up north complained because they thought that blue light behind them was a fire truck… 🤪
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Our fire trucks are red in Indiana, just volunteers POV is blue. I've never seen a state have blue for fire trucks.
 
mjonesjr84 said:
Our fire trucks are red in Indiana, just volunteers POV is blue. I've never seen a state have blue for fire trucks.
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That may have been what it was, we were running blue lights when I started back in the mid 80s and switched to red and blue in the early 90s… It had something to do with they didn’t understand that blue light meant Police… it might’ve been that they thought the blue lights behind them was a volunteer and they didn’t need to pull over…
 
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Camdenst said:
CT fire volunteer run blue lights. I always feel bad seeing them stopped at a red light when they are all lit up.
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We "have" to obey all traffic laws in Indiana as a VFF responding to a call. I've been stuck at a light and I've had the entire intersection stop so I could go thru a red light. Our LEO's are very forgiving for us around where I live. I've had state troopers go by me and wave me to keep up, as they pulled away.
 
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We "have" to obey all traffic laws in Indiana as a VFF responding to a call. I've been stuck at a light and I've had the entire intersection stop so I could go thru a red light. Our LEO's are very forgiving for us around where I live. I've had state troopers go by me and wave me to keep up, as they pulled away.
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So as a volunteer your personal vehicles can have flashing blues? What about your fire trucks? Or paid dept trucks?

This is crazy to me.but i guess since hollywood is here in CA I've just never been exposed to anything but what I'm used to.
 
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Rickyd said:
So as a volunteer your personal vehicles can have flashing blues? What about your fire trucks? Or paid dept trucks?

This is crazy to me.but i guess since hollywood is here in CA I've just never been exposed to anything but what I'm used to.
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The flashing blue lights is only in our personal vehicles. That is our response to the station lights. From there our apparatus have red lights.

I got my ass ate by a KY state trooper because I witnessed a wreck on I65 and out of habit flipped my blue lights on to slow traffic while I was out making sure everyone was ok. In Kentucky, blue lights is the Kentucky State Police. He didn't take into account I had a Indiana license plate. Lesson learned for me to not use the lights to assist in other states, even though I am frequently in KY.
 
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Zorba said:
That's interesting as I've always associated blue with police and police ONLY. Red can be fire or ambulance. Amber or white can be anybody.
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In Indiana, red/blue is police, red is fire/EMS, blue is volunteer firefighter POV, and green is EMS volunteer POV.
 
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I don t have anything set up in my TJ yet, in my liberty I have a windshield mount LED that I rebuilt from a broken strobe. I'm a Volunteer in NJ finishing my last year as Chief and have a department vehicle. Here blue is for all volunteers, but Chiefs, and Deputy/Assistant Chiefs can run red, but they also must have a siren (with a state permit). We are also technically limited to only use the lights in a contiguous municipality that we have a mutual aid agreement with. Right now I have some blue LED's that I'll probably put into a different old strobe housing that fits flush with the windshield. I have found that most people have not idea what to do and panic when they see lights behind them in my pov I try to use sparingly, and I remove them from my pov when going out of state.
 
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